Callisto Pharmaceuticals Announces Dr. Kenneth C. Anderson to Join Scientific Advisory Board.Business Editors/Health/Medical Writers NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 5, 2003 Callisto Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (OTCBB OTCBB See OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB). : CLSP) announced that Dr. Kenneth C. Anderson, Director of the Jerome Lipper Multiple Myeloma Center of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School Harvard Medical School (HMS) is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University. It is a prestigious American medical school located in the Longwood Medical Area of the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. will become a member of Callisto's Scientific Advisory Board. Dr. Anderson is a well recognized leader in multiple myeloma research and clinical drug development. "I am happy to join the Scientific Advisory Board and excited to see Callisto's drug candidate for multiple myeloma, Atiprimod, moving forward into clinical development" said Dr. Anderson. Callisto is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of drugs to treat multiple myeloma, other cancers and osteolytic osteolytic adjective Causing bone breakdown bone disease. Callisto's lead drug candidate, Atiprimod, is a small-molecule, orally available drug with antiproliferative and antiangiogenic an·ti·an·gi·o·gen·ic adj. Inhibiting the growth of blood vessels. antiangiogenic activity. Atiprimod successfully completed Phase I clinical trials in rheumatoid arthritis patients and Callisto plans to enter Atiprimod in a safety and proof-of-principle clinical trial in multiple myeloma patients. Callisto intends to submit to the FDA FDA abbr. Food and Drug Administration FDA, n.pr See Food and Drug Administration. FDA, n.pr the abbreviation for the Food and Drug Administration. by August 2003 an IND to treat multiple myeloma patients. The drug is also being explored as an agent to treat osteolytic bone disease. In addition, Callisto has programs focused on the development of an analog of the human intestinal hormone, uroguanylin, to treat colon cancer, and drugs to protect against staphylococcal and streptococcal streptococcal /strep·to·coc·cal/ (-kok´al) pertaining to or caused by a streptococcus. Streptococcal (Streptococcus) Pertaining to any of the Streptococcus bacteria. bioweapons, as a protection against the devastating effects of toxic shock syndrome toxic shock syndrome (TSS). acute, sometimes fatal, disease characterized by high fever, nausea, diarrhea, lethargy, blotchy rash, and sudden drop in blood pressure. It is caused by Staphylococcus aureus, an exotoxin-producing bacteria (see toxin). . Callisto has two operating subsidiaries, Callisto Research Labs, LLC and Synergy Pharmaceuticals Inc. Included in this release are "forward-looking: statements. Such statements are indicated by words such as "expect," "should," "anticipate" and similar words indicating uncertainty in facts and figures. Although Callisto believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, it can give no assurance that such expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements will prove to have been correct. Callisto's actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements as a result of various factors. |
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